Marmor Remains Always Cool: Ingrid Lutz and Jurgen Kuhfuss. A memorial to Gustav Grundgens. The mixture of theater and politics leads to ruin.


This movie is part of the collection: German Cinema from Lutz Mommartz

Director: Lutz Mommartz
Producer: Lutz Mommartz
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Mommartz

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Reviewer: J Lehmus - - March 8, 2006
Subject: My response is a poem
Working with marble
poetically presented
I yield myself to the flow
of the visual narrative
suffer the determined
blows of the hammer
and invite the chisel

But the textual references
are harder to follow
even when you think
you're a poet
A surrender is called for
but how is one to accomplish this
when the signs fall back
further and further
in the wind of time
And interpretation and
commentary
claim the place
in gradual steps

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The Lutz Mommartz Film Archive is a collection of the film works of German film-maker Lutz Mommartz, considered to be one of the pioneers in the film genre known as the "other cinema". Mommartz was born in Erkelenz in 1934 and spent most of his life in Dusseldorf. He began making movies in 1967 and eventually became Professor of Film at the Kunstakademie Munster. He still lives and works in Germany, dividing his time between Dusseldorf and Berlin.